Good, shame about the women.

Rating: 7/10 (25 October 2008)

I'll keep this brief: firstly, this is enjoyable nonsense - good enough to buy on DVD, far, FAR superior to the God-awful Mr and Mrs Smith which promised to be enjoyable nonsense too, but turned out to be utter tripe.
One good line in this film is in response to Lincoln asking Mac who God is: "You know when you close your eyes and wish for something really, really hard? God's the guy that ignores you." Unfortunately there are moments of misogyny in this film which really bug me: Mac's 'joke' about never lending a woman your credit card is so lame he may as well have thrown in a mother-in-law gag while he was at it, and his pretty girlfriend is portrayed as a dum, yapping nuisance who was only there to keep PVC uniform's stashed in her closet and ferry the beer in. In other words she was an interfering nag. Why a lady as pretty as this would shack up with such a useless slimeball is beyond me, but it seems to happen a lot in these kind of 'boys own' American movies.
While talking to Lincoln and Jordon he describes 'some hag trophy wife....' which is rich coming from an ugly nerd like him.
It's been a long time since I've seen a film which so clearly has been written by men aiming for the spotty teenage boy market, and unfortunately their attitude towards women and the juvenile way they are portrayed gets on my nerves.
Other than that, it's a pretty good Saturday night popcorn flick. Just ignore the sexism if you can.